We Are All Leaders: The Alternative Unionism of the Early 1930s

By Staughton Lynd and Lynd

Book Overview

'We Are All Leaders' describes a kind of union qualitatively different from the bureaucratic business unions that make up the AFL-CIO today. From African American nutpickers in St. Louis, chemical and rubber workers in Akron, textile workers in the South, and bootleg miners in Pennsylvania to tenant farmers in the Mississippi Delta, packinghouse and garment workers in Minnesota, seamen in San Francisco, and labor party campaigns throughout the country, workers in the 1930's were experimenting with community-based unionism.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252022432
• ISBN13: 9780252022432
• Release Date: October 1996
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 343 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.